Pre-Med & Pre-Law Academic Advisor

About The Department

The University of Cincinnati Pre-Professional Advising Center (PPAC) has an opening for an Academic Advisor focused on Pre-Law and Pre-Medicine.  We seek an advisor to join our team, where we provide high quality advising within a collaborative, and inclusive environment preparing students to become competitive professional school applicants.  Grounded in teaching and learning, our team follows best practices from our professional organizations of NACADA, PLANC and NAAHP, within an inclusive student centered environment. The PPAC is housed in Enrollment Management and provides specialized pre-health & pre-law advising to all UC students through their full academic journey, from prospective student through alumni.

Job Overview

Advise current and prospective students about how to meet their educational, professional, and personal goals.

Essential Functions

• Provide academic advising to facilitate students’ successful and timely educational planning for degree completion in alignment with their educational and pre-law/pre-med career goals.
• Serve as advisor for a designated caseload of pre-law/pre-med students through proactive outreach, support, and education. Develop a rapport of trust and accessibility with assigned students. Ensure accurate advice and quality support, contributing to persistence and a positive student experience.
• Provide regular and updated Pre-Professional workshops throughout each semester.
• Monitor student progress and develop graduation and post-graduation plans in partnership with individual students. Provide information regarding curriculum, policies, procedures, opportunities, and guidelines for academic programs.
• Evaluate student information and utilize data to facilitate enrollment and registration. Maintain advising and enrollment records. In partnership with faculty, assess advanced standing credit, substitute courses to meet graduation requirements, and create degree audit exceptions. Facilitate and complete student degree certification.
• Evaluate student needs and provide appropriate resource referral to career, academic, counseling, and student life resources and opportunities.  

Essential Functions (cont'd)

• Support students through educational transition processes (ex. orientation, exploration, transfer, transition, and post-graduation.)
• Recommend actions related to academic alert, probation, suspension, and dismissal of students. Identify opportunities for high-performing student engagement and goal attainment.
• Utilize current advising and student success technologies for outreach to students. Perform other duties related to student success. 
• Support student needs with sound equity and inclusion practices for student success.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and training to maintain up-to-date knowledge about advising concepts, practices, policies, technologies, and student success needs at the university and in higher education.
• Function as a member of an advising or student success team to ensure the proper workflow and outcomes of the unit. Collaborate with the UC advising community, campus colleagues and the pre-law/pre-med professional associations to advance quality advising practice.
• Attend related meetings and functions.
• Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.

Required Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Required Experience

Zero (0) to one (1) year of student service or related experience.

Additional Qualifications Considered

• Undergraduate student service and/or leadership may be considered.
• Master's Degree
• Experience directly related to higher education and/or law and healthcare professions.
• Understanding of and prior work with competitive law and/or health school application process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to recruit and advise a varied student population.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask, learn and use new advising technology tools, problem solve, show initiative, work within a team and independently as needed.

Application Process Information

• Resume
• Cover letter
• List of 3 references (at least one reference must be a previous supervisor). References will be checked for finalist.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment